What was that old adage about advertising? I know that half my advertising is working for me...I just don't know which half? Well, Gartner analyst Adam Sarner has a report out that indicates over 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies with Web sites have...

For those of you interested in where IBM is taking social software IBM Lotus programmers and engineers from IBM's research groups are currently working on ways to employ virtual reality technologies with Lotus Connections social computing software, said Jeff...

Our Rational Software Development Conference is happening down at Disney World this week. You can learn more about the event here. Acknowledging the increasing interest in virtual worlds and the 3D Internet among the developer community, we're also...

IBM launched a new virtual Business Center inside Second Life about a half hour ago. The new center has six areas, including a reception area (although it's not quite as big as the reception area in Armonk), a Sales Center, a Tech Support Library, an...

IBM's PartnerWorld conference has been going on in St. Louis this week, an annual pow-wow for our very important Business Partners from around the globe. Our own Nick Donofrio gave a keynote on "the virtual planet," addressing the emerging importance of...

We haven't heard much from our friends in the virtual worlds lately, including Second Life. But they continue to grow like wildfire, and now Second Life in particular is looking to get a voice. At this week's Gartner Symposium ITxpo, one of my personal...

I had a bad Apple computing experience overnight. The kind that completely counterbalanced my warm fuzzy feelings from the recent Mac vs. PC TV spots. I was trying to pay a visit to Second Life so I could visit the Sleezywood Trailer Park slurl -- curiousity...

I arrived here in Torrey Pines on Wednesday PM and checked in at the Hilton La Jolla and politely asked the nice lady behind the desk where the Buick Invitational golf tournament was being played. She pointed over my shoulder. Duh, it was directly...

Fortune's David Kirkpatrick is now on the record about why Second Life ain't no game. It includes a great quote from our own Irving-Wladawksy Berger: "Virtual worlds are where video and VCRs were in the early 1980s, or where the Web was in in 1993." Yeah,...

First, free stuff. CNN is offering up its online video tool, CNN Pipeline, for free today. Smart, considering tonight the president delivers his State of the Union address. Get your free bits here . Second, if you're travelling by air to the U.S....

If you haven't gotten your new Second Life avatar all spiffied up yet with some new digital threads, you got "noob" written all over you. Whatever you do, don't go to virtual Amsterdam. You know that saying about if you don't know who the sucker in the room...

I was really happy about being named Time's "Person of the Year." Andy Warhol promised me my fifteen minutes of fame a long time ago, but I was starting to give up on the notion. In case you hadn't heard, over the weekend Time named "You" as its 2006 "Person...

TGIF. What a crazy week. Between Clay Shirky taking the bloom off the budding Second Life rose, and Yahoo and IBM announcing a free enterprise search tool, and Jib Jab releasing their newest episode whose-title-will-go-unnamed-in-this-upstanding-IBM-blog-like...

As I mentioned in a post yesterday, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano is getting himself an avatar -- two, actually (one dressed a little more casually than the other), which he used to pay a visit earlier today to an IBM meeting held in a recreation of the "Forbidden...